The "Dwightmare" may be over, but on the eve of his first game against his former team, Dwight Howard was in a reflective mood about what happened over those final furious six months with the Magic.

"I've had a chance to sit back and think about it and there are some things I could've done better. There are some things that could've been done better on both sides," Howard said in a lengthy, wide-ranging interview after Los Angeles Lakers practice on Saturday. "But at the end of the day, we all learn some lessons and we've got to move forward.

"I'm happy here, I'm having a lot of fun. This is a place that I've always prayed that I could be a part of something very special. So I want to take advantage of it." ...

"It doesn't really matter to talk about it now. It's over and done with," he said. "There are a lot of things we both could've done, but at the end of the day, it happened just the way it was supposed to happen. There was a reason behind everything. We might not see it or understand it at the time, but there was a reason why everything happened the way it happened and I think it made both parties stronger."